Fillmore Movie Theater

Fillmore Movie Theater

Fillmore Movie Theater 681 Fillmore Avenue The Fillmore Avenue Movie Theater was among the first amenities to emerge as growing neighborhoods across the East Side came to resemble self-sufficient villages within the expanding city, each with its own stores, houses of...
Mary Talbert House

Mary Talbert House

Mary Talbert House 521 Michigan Avenue Mary Burnett Talbert was an American orator, activist, suffragist, and reformer. Talbert was educated at Oberlin college at a time when it was controversial for any woman, let alone a woman of color, to receive such honors. She...
Eliza Quirk House

Eliza Quirk House

Eliza Quirk House 72 Sycamore Street The Eliza Quirk House was a pre-Civil War boarding house designed and constructed circa 1848 for its original owner, Eliza Quirk, a well-known courtesan, who occupied the building until her death in 1868. The structure is a simple,...